Paper Bullets: Print and Kingship Under Charles IIThe calculated use of media by those in power is a phenomenon dating back at least to the seventeenth century, as Harold Weber demonstrates in this illuminating study of the relation of print culture to kingship under England's Charles II. Seventeenth-century London witnessed an enormous expansion of the print trade, and with this expansion came a revolutionary change in the relation between political authority -- especially the monarchy -- and the printed word.Weber argues that Charles' reign was characterized by a particularly fluid relationship between print and power. The press helped brin. |
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... tion is as fully mediated as that of public celebration . Yet unlike the private writing of Pepys and Evelyn , the public status of Englands Joy allows it to constitute the very triumph it ostensibly only describes ; like the theatrical ...
... tion is as fully mediated as that of public celebration . Yet unlike the private writing of Pepys and Evelyn , the public status of Englands Joy allows it to constitute the very triumph it ostensibly only describes ; like the theatrical ...
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... tion , J. Paul Hunter presents an impressive summarization and interpre- tation of contemporary research into English literacy ; he concludes that " the steepest acceleration in literacy occurred early on in the seven- teenth century ...
... tion , J. Paul Hunter presents an impressive summarization and interpre- tation of contemporary research into English literacy ; he concludes that " the steepest acceleration in literacy occurred early on in the seven- teenth century ...
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... tion , but " an arena for public opinion — a platform from which popular views could be put before the Court of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen . " 34 And recently Tim Harris , in his study of the London crowd , has argued that ordinary ...
... tion , but " an arena for public opinion — a platform from which popular views could be put before the Court of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen . " 34 And recently Tim Harris , in his study of the London crowd , has argued that ordinary ...
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Print and Kingship Under Charles II Harold M. Weber ... tion in conceptions of the monarchy , its sacred and divine character questioned by the radical politics of mid - century England . " This Bloody Stroke being struck upon the Royal ...
Print and Kingship Under Charles II Harold M. Weber ... tion in conceptions of the monarchy , its sacred and divine character questioned by the radical politics of mid - century England . " This Bloody Stroke being struck upon the Royal ...
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... tion and exchange " characterize the reproduction and transformation of cultural forms . The confrontation between those determined to put an end to the social and political experiments of the Interregnum by restoring the monarchy and ...
... tion and exchange " characterize the reproduction and transformation of cultural forms . The confrontation between those determined to put an end to the social and political experiments of the Interregnum by restoring the monarchy and ...
Contents
Restoration and Escape The Incognito King and Providential History | 25 |
The Monarchs Sacred Body The Kings Evil and the Politics of Royal Healing | 50 |
The Monarchs Profane Body His scepter and his prick are of a length | 88 |
The feminine part of every rebellion The Public Royal Power and the Mysteries of Printing | 131 |
The very Oracles of the Vulgar Stephen College and the Author on Trial | 172 |
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